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Linguistic and Cognitive Determinants of Lexical Acquisition in a Second Language.
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Ijaz, I. Helene – Language Learning, 1986
A semantic-relatedness test and a cloze-type/sentence-completion test compared meanings ascribed to spatial prepositions by adult native English and advanced English-as-a-second-language speakers. Non-native speakers differed from native speakers in the semantic boundaries ascribed to the words, with the differences deriving from weighting…
Descriptors: Adults, Cloze Procedure, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes